St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-19

The steamer City of New York has arrived
at San Francisco from Hong Kong and
reports that the typhOon which raged
recently struck the Island of Hol Sing.
The general opinion is that hundred or
two hundred persons were drowned. AT
Chick Lung thirty-twO lives were lost.
The establishment of the Higgins Cracker
and Confectionery Company, in Kansas City,
Mo-, has been burned Loss, 100000.
The town of Shady Grove, Livingston
county, Ind, has been entirely destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
The American Exchange National Bank
in New York has obtained an attachment
against Alderman Bros, of California, in a
suit to recover So, rs on a note executed by
J. B. Rosenthal & Co., and indorsed by the
defendants. They have also attached the
property of the makers of the note.
A public reception has been given to Car
dinaI Gibbons in New Orleans 1t was at
tended by about 5000 persons, among whom
were many Protestants and Hebrews. The
cardinal was presented by committee OF
Catholic gentlemen with magnificent pee
tOral cross gold chain and a ring all set with
emeralds and diamonds.
Quarantine Commissioner Nchol, of New
York, who had been to Washington to con-
suit with Secretary Fairchild regarding the
cholera-infected vessels coming to that port,
has reached home In an interview he said
the secretary emphatically declared islnten-
ton to stand by the quarantine authorities in
the matter Of emigrant ships from cholera
infected ports and he would carry out their
wishes to the extent of his power. The sec
retary also said he had the power under the
United States statutes, under the recommen-
dation of the quarantine officials, to dispose
of such ships and their cargoes in such man
ner as would be most safe for the public
health.
Edward S. Curran, at one time telegraph
operator in the New York Produce Exchange,
and John H. Scrivener young friend of his
from Georgia, applied for lodgings at a
statiOn-house in Washington recently. They
told ptiful story of inhuman treatment to
which they had been subjected on board an
oyster dredging sloop for month past, and
from which they had just escaped by swim
ming ashore while the crew was too drunk to
interfere. They reached the shore at Hugo
river and walked to Washington, where they
arrived shoeless. hatless and in rags. The
remarkable part ofthe story is that they were
kidnapped in Baltimore and put upon the
sloop which was manned by Captain William
+. Phillip, Mate L. A. Adams and two others.
A telegram from Brownsville, Tex, says
that recently the State Rangers, in conjunc-
ton with the sheriff posse and the Mexican
troops, made concerted move against the
Ln,, I,C
burgh.
John X. Alexander, well-to-do farmer
near Centreviile, Tenn, shot and mOrtally
wounded Jackson Blackwell and his son,
and then committed suicide. There had
been ill-feeling between them.
Four tons of molten steel were run into
wet receptacle in the works of the Springfield
Iron Company, near Springfield, Ill, and a
tremendous explosion followed. The entire
city was shaken by the conclusion. In the
works about twenty men were injured, three
dangerously
The daughter and son of J. Schroeder,
aged four and six years respectively, were
playing around bonfire in New Brunswick.
n. j., recently, when the girl fell into the
flames. Her brother attempted to rescue
her, but failed, and both were burned to
death
The fou, dry, machine and pattern shops
and the blacksmith department of Samuel
Wallace al White Haven, Pa, have been
burned. Wallace's loss is estimated at
$4,000; partially insured. 1t is said that
$4,000 worth of patterns and molds be-
longing to the New Jersey Central railroad
were destroyed on which there is no insur-
ance.
The Postmaster General has directed the
postmaster at Boston to withhold payment
of money orders and postal notes sent to the
National Card Company doing business in
that city, and to return to the writer's letters
addressed to that concern. It is stated that
this order is based upon evidence showing
that the concern is fraud.
Sherburne G. Hopkins, author of the
scheme of sending through the mails to
Chief Justice Waite a counterfeit internal
machine, appeared before the police court in
Washington recently to answer charge of
conspiracy to defraud The trial was post
poned.
Isaac Arnold killed his father-in-law,
Thomas Newson, at Gray's Chapel, Tenn.
Newson was drunk and began to whip Mrs.
Arnold, when her husband interfered, and a
fight resulted ending in the death of Newson.
Arnold says he acted in self-defense